Hare Island
Zayachy Island is an island in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is separated by the Kronverksky Strait from Petrogradsky Island to the north, to which it is connected by the Kronverksky and Ioannovsky bridges.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Also known as: “Zayachy Island” and “Zayachy Ostrov”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Artillery Museum and Peter I Monument.
Artillery Museum
Museum
Photo: George Shuklin, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, also known simply as the Artillery Museum, is a state-owned military museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Peter I Monument
Memorial
The Monument to Peter I in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a bronze statue by Mihail Chemiakin. It was designed and cast in the United States in the 1980s and donated by Chemiakin to the city.
Saint Petersburg Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Florstein, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Saint Petersburg Mosque, when opened in 1913, was the largest mosque in Europe outside Turkey. The mosque is situated in downtown St Petersburg. Its two minarets are 49 meters high and the dome is 39 meters high.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peter and Paul Fortress and Petrograd Side.
Peter and Paul Fortress
Neighborhood
Photo: Godot13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Peter and Paul Fortress is the original citadel of Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706 to 1740 as a star fortress.
Petrograd Side
Photo: Мария.Б., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Petrograd Side is a borough in Saint Petersburg consisting of the islands of the northern part of the Neva delta. Mostly residential, it is also home to several smaller universities, stadiums of FC Zenit and the tallest structure of the city, a 326-m-high TV tower.
Apraksin Dvor
Suburb
Apraksin Yard is a market and retail block in Saint Petersburg, Russia, covering 14 hectares. It is currently under a massive long-term renovation project.
Hare Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Hare Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Zajatsji-eiland”
- Armenian: “Զայաչի կղզի (Սանկտ Պետերբուրգ)”
- Armenian: “Զայաչի կղզի”
- Belarusian: “Заечы востраў (Санкт-Пецярбург)”
- Belarusian: “Заечы востраў”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Zayachiy (pulo sa Rusya, Sankt-Peterburg)”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Zayachiy”
- Chechen: “Пхьагалан гӀайре”
- Chinese: “兔子岛”
- Czech: “Zajačij ostrov”
- Czech: “Zaječí ostrov”
- Dutch: “Hazeneiland”
- Dutch: “Zajatsjiy ostrov”
- Eastern Mari: “Мераҥ отро”
- Estonian: “Jänesesaar”
- Finnish: “Jänissaari”
- German: “Haseninsel”
- German: “Sajatschi-Insel”
- Italian: “Isola delle Lepri”
- Japanese: “うさぎ島”
- Polish: “Wyspa Zajęcza”
- Romanian: “Insula Zaiaci”
- Russian: “Заячий (остров, Санкт-Петербург)”
- Russian: “Заячий остров”
- Slovak: “Zajačij ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Zajači Ostrov”
- Slovenian: “Zajčji otok”
- Spanish: “Isla de Zayachy”
- Spanish: “Isla Zayachy”
- Spanish: “Zaiachiy”
- Turkish: “Tavşan Adası (Sankt-Peterburg)”
- Turkish: “Tavşan Adası”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Peter and Paul Fortress and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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